treelet
a small tree
Noun
- a small tree
- At one extreme, the two plots in Malaysia are in tall, evergreen forest; have no regular dry season; and include over 800 tree and treelet species each. - 2000 May 26, Richard Condit et al., “Spatial Patterns in the...
- The people are sorely in need of firewood, and not being far-seeing enough to realize what a menace it is to the country to denude it so unscientifically, they have razed every treelet. - 1920, Anne Elizabeth Caldwell...
- A single tiny treelet broke the plain just at the skyline of the rise. - 1913, Stewart Edward White, The Land of Footprints:
Origin
From tree + -let.